On March 16, 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Antonin Scalia, who had died one month earlier. At the ti
Garland with President Obama on March 17, 2016 shortly after his nomination was announced
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia
Garland meeting with Democratic U.S. Senator Al Franken
Merrick Garland with Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins
Mitch McConnell
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Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and attorney who has been a United States senator from Kentucky since 1985 and has been Kentucky's senior U.S. senator since 1999. A member of
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…District of Columbia Circuit. This vacancy arose during Obama's final year as president. Hours after Scalia's death was announced, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would consider any appointment by the sitting president to be null and void. He said the next Supreme Court justice should be chosen by the…
Official portrait, 2016
McConnell in duPont Manual High School's 1960 yearbook
McConnell during the 99th United States Congress, 1985
President Ronald Reagan in a meeting with McConnell in the Oval Office in March 1987